Make a Bigger Impact by Saying Less

by Joseph McCormack

Senior marketing executive Joseph McCormack offers a step-by-step approach to getting to the point quickly and delivering every message with maximum impact. Brief describes how to use BRIEF maps, narratives and visual media to make your message more compelling. A master of brevity says less and gets more done –– learn how.

How Smart Companies Win By Trusting Their People

by Chris DeRose, Noel Tichy

Management experts Chris DeRose and Noel M. Tichy explain why frontline employees are so important and why it is crucial to involve them in decision making. Judgment on the Front Line provides a five-step process for building a frontline-focused organization and includes examples of frontline leadership in action.

Follow This Path describes how organizations should value and develop relationships with their employees and customers. Authors Curt Coffman and Gabriel Gonzalez-Molina, Ph.D. use research from a Gallup study to show how developing your employees can lead to major cost efficiencies and profits.

Discovering Order in a Chaotic World

by Margaret Wheatley

In the chaotic times in which we live, we need new ideas, new ways of seeing, and new relationships to help us. With the new discoveries in biology, chaos theory, and quantum physics, this new science offers this guidance. Management professor Margaret Wheatley describes in Leadership and the New Science, how the new science drastically changes our understanding of the world, and how it can teach us to live and work better together in these chaotic times.

Rebooting Business and the World

by Don Tapscott, Anthony D. Williams

In this follow up to their 2007 bestseller, Wikinomics, Don Tapscott and Anthony Willliams once again use original research to provide new examples of organizations that are successfully embracing the principles of wikinomics to change the world. Find out how in this executive book summary of Macrowikonomics.

How Extraordinary Companies Transcend Commodity and Defy Comparison

by Joe Calloway

These days, so many companies strive to fit into a niche that they must elbow their way past a mass of competitors to do so. Why strive to be a leader in your category when you can create a different category and be the only one in it? Such are the lessons to be learned in Becoming a Category of One. By using consultant Joe Calloway’s tips and advice, you can avoid being “commoditized” and differentiate yourself and your business from your competitors simply by shifting focus to your cu

How Successful Leaders Use Outside Insight to Create Superior Results

by Dr. Saj-Nicole A. Joni

In recent years, authority has given way to influence. In The Third Opinion, Dr. Saj-nicole A. Joni explores how this raising of the leadership bar has given way to an even greater challenge for leaders — determining to whom they can turn when experienced, trustworthy advice is required. Some leaders might turn to colleagues inside the organization for help; others might call upon a trusted adviser outside the company. There is, however, another opinion for which most people never ask: